The ‘sukuk premium’ - the additional cost which borrowers must pay to issue an Islamic bond instead of a conventional bond - has effectively disappeared, and this will stimulate a boom in sukuk issuance while lengthening tenors, a senior executive at Deutsche Bank said.
'I don't think there is an Islamic premium anymore,' Salah Jaidah, head of Islamic finance at the bank and chief country officer for Qatar, said in an interview this week...............................................Full Article: Source